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Thomas Piketty And Inequality: Legal Causes And Tax Solutions, Paul L. Caron Jan 2015

Thomas Piketty And Inequality: Legal Causes And Tax Solutions, Paul L. Caron

Emory Law Journal Online

Since publication of an English edition in March 2014, Capital in the Twenty-First Century has spawned heated debates in newspapers, magazines, and blogs, which soon will continue in academic journals and law reviews. Shi-Ling Hsu is one of the first out of the gate with The Rise and Rise of the One Percent: Considering Legal Causes of Wealth Inequality. Hsu's essay is a significant contribution to what is certain to be an energetic debate over the implications of Piketty's work. I offer here two modest reactions to Hsu's essay: (1) recent inequality research has shifted the focus of high-end wealth …

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The Analysis Of Barriers And Motivators Of Early Care And Education English As A Second Language Students Enrolled In A State College Customized Ece Esl Course, Edwiygh Franck Jan 2015

The Analysis Of Barriers And Motivators Of Early Care And Education English As A Second Language Students Enrolled In A State College Customized Ece Esl Course, Edwiygh Franck

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

An intrinsic case study was conducted to understand what helps Early Care and Education (ECE) English as a Second Language (ESL) students to enroll in a customized ECE ESL course at a local state college and what barriers may hinder their success in the course. This research examined whether the following were either motivators or barriers or both in ECE ESL participants enrolling in an ECE ESL customized course: course design and delivery, student support systems, student self-motivation, student self- efficacy, time and schedule commitment, instructor and student relationship, availability of resources, and level of classroom involvement. The results revealed …

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The Beliefs Of Advanced Placement Teachers Regarding Equity And Access To Advanced Placement Courses: A Mixed-Methods Study, Mirynne Igualada Jan 2015

The Beliefs Of Advanced Placement Teachers Regarding Equity And Access To Advanced Placement Courses: A Mixed-Methods Study, Mirynne Igualada

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

This mixed methods study of teachers' beliefs about Advanced Placement (AP) equity and access policies occurred in Sunshine County School District, a large south Florida school district that had received accolades for leading the nation in access and equity in AP. Drawing on social reconstructionism, this study framed AP as an acceleration mechanism with the potential to increase students' prospects for social advancement. These policies have resulted in a more diverse classroom experience through nontraditional student participation in AP courses. The purpose of this embedded case study was to examine the relationship between beliefs held by AP teachers in regard …

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The Effect Of Student Participation In Student Success Skills On The Academic Behaviors And Key Learning Skills And Techniques Associated With College-Career Readiness, Michael C. Kane Jan 2015

The Effect Of Student Participation In Student Success Skills On The Academic Behaviors And Key Learning Skills And Techniques Associated With College-Career Readiness, Michael C. Kane

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

The purpose of the current outcome study was to determine the impact of Student Success Skills (SSS) classroom guidance lessons on the Academic Behaviors (motivation, social engagement, self-regulation) and Key Learning Skills and Techniques associated with college-career readiness (CCR) indicators for Grade 5 students (ACT, 2008a; Brigman & Webb, 2012; Conley, 2010; Robbins, Allen, Casillas, Peterson, & Le, 2006). School counselors in the treatment schools were trained in the implementation of the SSS classroom program and subsequently taught the material to Grade 5 students. Comparison school counselors conducted business as usual. The study applied a quasi-experimental pre/post1/post2 design utilizing student …

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Which Witch?: Morgan Le Fay As Shape-Shifter And English Perceptions Of Magic Reflected In Arthurian Legend, Cheyenne Oliver Jan 2015

Which Witch?: Morgan Le Fay As Shape-Shifter And English Perceptions Of Magic Reflected In Arthurian Legend, Cheyenne Oliver

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Descended from Celtic goddesses and the fairies of folklore, the literary character of Morgan le Fay has been most commonly perceived as a witch and a one-dimensional villainess who plagues King Arthur and his court, rather than recognized as the legendary King’s enchanted healer and otherworldly guardian. Too often the complexity of Morgan le Fay and her supernatural abilities are lost, her character neglected as peripheral. As a literary figure of imaginative design this thesis explores Morgan le Fay as a unique “window” into the medieval mindset, whereby one can recover both medieval understandings of magic and female magicians. By …

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Wind Effect On Super-Tall Buildings Using Computational Fluid Dynamics And Structural Dynamics, Bilal Assaad Jan 2015

Wind Effect On Super-Tall Buildings Using Computational Fluid Dynamics And Structural Dynamics, Bilal Assaad

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Super-tall buildings located in high velocity wind regions are highly vulnerable to large lateral loads. Designing for these structures must be done with great engineering judgment by structural professionals. Present methods of evaluating these loads are typically by the use of American Society of Civil Engineers 7-10 standard, field measurements or scaled wind tunnel models. With the rise of high performance computing nodes, an emerging method based on the numerical approach of Computational Fluid Dynamics has created an additional layer of analysis and loading prediction alternative to conventional methods. The present document uses turbulence modeling and numerical algorithms by means …

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William Vaughan: Liberal Education And Voluntary Societies In The Age Of Revolution, Daniel Alexander Jones Jan 2015

William Vaughan: Liberal Education And Voluntary Societies In The Age Of Revolution, Daniel Alexander Jones

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

This study examines the life of William Vaughan, a merchant in London during the revolutionary era, and the product of a new form of liberal education developed in England's Dissenting Academies. By taking full advantage of the innovative principles of liberal education developed by men like Joseph Priestley, Vaughan, as a professional, was able to wield social and political influence on behalf of a new merchant class previously excluded from the halls of power. Vaughan's success as governor of the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation and promoter of the English shipping industry, as well as his service as a member of …

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Sanitary Sewer Evaluation Of Inflow/Infiltration Reduction Techniques, Geoffrey Trent Vanallen Jan 2015

Sanitary Sewer Evaluation Of Inflow/Infiltration Reduction Techniques, Geoffrey Trent Vanallen

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Substantial savings in operations can be achieved by reducing the amount of wastewater that must be pumped and treated. Utilities have long dealt with the infiltration and inflow (I and I) issues in their system by televising their pipes and identifying leak points, but this primarily addresses only the infiltration part of “I and I.” Inflow, which creates hydraulic issues during rain events, leads to sanitary sewer overflows and can subject the utility to fines from regulatory agencies. As a result, dealing with the inflow portion of I and I is needed. The goal of this thesis is to differentiate …

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Designing Utopia, Lesli D. White Jan 2015

Designing Utopia, Lesli D. White

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

The intention of this thesis is to explore the innate human desire to pursue an ideal existence. This compulsion recurs throughout history, regardless of race, religion, or geography, revealing itself through multiple disciplines such as art, design, film, music, and architecture. Humankind’s propulsion towards utopia evidences the human condition and our desire to create an improved existence for ourselves and for those who follow. It is this idyllic goal that promotes change, social progress, and ultimately unites humankind. This thesis will inform and facilitate a platform from which to experience and reflect upon our collective utopian ambition through the lens …

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Distinguishability Of Public Keys And Experimental Validation: The Mceliece Public-Keyed Cryptosystem, Hai Pham Jan 2015

Distinguishability Of Public Keys And Experimental Validation: The Mceliece Public-Keyed Cryptosystem, Hai Pham

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

As quantum computers continue to develop, they pose a threat to cryptography since many popular cryptosystems will be rendered vulnerable. This is because the security of most currently used asymmetric systems requires the computational hardness of the integer factorization problem, the discrete logarithm or the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem. However, there are still some cryptosystems that resist quantum computing. We will look at code-based cryptography in general and the McEliece cryptosystem specifically. Our goal is to understand the structure behind the McEliece scheme, including the encryption and decryption processes, and what some advantages and disadvantages are that the system …

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Dosimetric And Radiobiological Comparison Of Forward Tangent Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (Ft-Imrt) And Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (Vmat) For Early Stage Whole Breast Cancer, Sedeh Nader Moshiri Jan 2015

Dosimetric And Radiobiological Comparison Of Forward Tangent Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (Ft-Imrt) And Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (Vmat) For Early Stage Whole Breast Cancer, Sedeh Nader Moshiri

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) is a well-known type of external beam radiation therapy. The advancement in technology has had an inevitable influence in radiation oncology as well that has led to a newer and faster dose delivery technique called Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT). Since the presence of the VMAT modality in clinics in the late 2000, there have been many studies in order to compare the results of the VMAT modality with the current popular modality IMRT for various tumor sites in the body such as brain, prostate, head and neck, cervix and anal carcinoma. This is the …

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Far-Field Noise From A Rotor In A Wind Tunnel, Justin Alexander Grant Jan 2015

Far-Field Noise From A Rotor In A Wind Tunnel, Justin Alexander Grant

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

This project is intended to demonstrate the current state of knowledge in the prediction of the tonal and broadband noise radiation from a Sevik rotor. The rotor measurements were made at the Virginia Tech Stability Wind Tunnel. Details of the rotor noise and flow measurements were presented by Wisda et al(2014) and Murray et al(2015) respectively. This study presents predictions based on an approach detailed by Glegg et al(2015) for the broadband noise generated by a rotor in an inhomogeneous flow, and compares them to measured noise radiated from the rotor at prescribed observer locations. Discrepancies between the measurements and …

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Effect Of Processing Temperature On The Properties Of Nanophase Fe-Substituted Hydroxypatite, Vindu Kathriarachchi Jan 2015

Effect Of Processing Temperature On The Properties Of Nanophase Fe-Substituted Hydroxypatite, Vindu Kathriarachchi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

The effect of processing temperature on the crystal structure properties of the Fe-substituted Hydroxyapatite (Fe-HAp) was studied by using the Rietveld refinement method of powder x-ray (XRD) and neutron diffraction (NPD) patterns. Superconducting QUantum Interference Device (SQUID) magnetometry, transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF) were used to study the magnetic properties, particle morphology and chemical composition of the prepared samples. Two sets of samples of chemical formula Ca5-xFex(PO4)3OH were prepared with x = 0, 0.05, 0.1, 0.2 and 0.3 by using processing temperatures of 37°C and 80°C, following a two-step co-precipitation method. A single phase HAp was …

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Imaging Through Ground-Level Turbulence By Fourier Telescopy: Simulations And Preliminary Experiments, Nishantha Randunu-Pathirannehelage Jan 2015

Imaging Through Ground-Level Turbulence By Fourier Telescopy: Simulations And Preliminary Experiments, Nishantha Randunu-Pathirannehelage

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Fourier telescopy imaging is a recently-developed imaging method that relies on active structured-light illumination of the object. Reflected/scattered light is measured by a large “light bucket” detector; processing of the detected signal yields the magnitude and phase of spatial frequency components of the object reflectance or transmittance function. An inverse Fourier transform results in the image. In 2012 a novel method, known as time-average Fourier telescopy (TAFT), was introduced by William T. Rhodes as a means for diffraction-limited imaging through ground-level atmospheric turbulence. This method, which can be applied to long horizontal-path terrestrial imaging, addresses a need that is not …

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Finite Element Modeling Of Dislocation Multiplication In Silicon Carbide Crystals Grown By Physical Vapor Transport Method, Qingde Chen Jan 2015

Finite Element Modeling Of Dislocation Multiplication In Silicon Carbide Crystals Grown By Physical Vapor Transport Method, Qingde Chen

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Silicon carbide as a representative wide band-gap semiconductor has recently received wide attention due to its excellent physical, thermal and especially electrical properties. It becomes a promising material for electronic and optoelectronic device under high-temperature, high-power and high-frequency and intense radiation conditions. During the Silicon Carbide crystal grown by the physical vapor transport process, the temperature gradients induce thermal stresses which is a major cause of the dislocations multiplication. Although large dimension crystal with low dislocation density is required for satisfying the fast development of electronic and optoelectronic device, high dislocation densities always appear in large dimension crystal. Therefore, reducing …

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Evolving Legacy Software Systems With A Resource And Performance-Sensitive Autonomic Interaction Manager, James J. Mulcahy Jan 2015

Evolving Legacy Software Systems With A Resource And Performance-Sensitive Autonomic Interaction Manager, James J. Mulcahy

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Retaining business value in a legacy commercial enterprise resource planning system today often entails more than just maintaining the software to preserve existing functionality. This type of system tends to represent a significant capital investment that may not be easily scrapped, replaced, or re-engineered without considerable expense. A legacy system may need to be frequently extended to impart new behavior as stakeholder business goals and technical requirements evolve. Legacy ERP systems are growing in prevalence and are both expensive to maintain and risky to evolve. Humans are the driving factor behind the expense, from the engineering costs associated with evolving …

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The Perceived Impact Of Technology-Based Informal Learning On Membership Organizations, Lori Miller Jan 2015

The Perceived Impact Of Technology-Based Informal Learning On Membership Organizations, Lori Miller

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Educational leadership goes beyond the boundaries of the classroom; skills needed for talent development professionals in business closely align with those needed in traditional educational leadership positions as both are responsible for the development and growth of others. Traditionally, the role of professional membership associations or organizations such as the Association for Talent Development (ATD, formerly known as the American Society for Training and Development), the group dedicated to individuals in the field of workplace learning and development, is to provide learning opportunities, set standards, identify best practices in their respective fields, and allow members to network with other professionals …

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The Role Of Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex In The Motor Control, Avisa Asemi Jan 2015

The Role Of Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex In The Motor Control, Avisa Asemi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

We sought to better understand human motor control by investigating functional interactions between the Supplementary Motor Area (SMA), dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex (dACC), and primary motor cortex (M1) in healthy adolescent participants performing visually coordinated unimanual finger-movement and n-back working memory tasks. We discovered modulation of the SMA by the dACC by analysis of fMRI BOLD time series recorded from the three ROIs (SMA, dACC, and M1) in each participant. Two measures of functional interaction were used: undirected functional connectivity was measured using the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient (PMCC), and directed functional connectivity was measured from linear autoregressive (AR) models. …

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The Significance For, And Impact Upon, Public Administration Of The Correspondence Theory Of Truth Or Veridicality, Derek Ray Slagle Jan 2015

The Significance For, And Impact Upon, Public Administration Of The Correspondence Theory Of Truth Or Veridicality, Derek Ray Slagle

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

The dissertation is about the significance for, and impact upon public administration of the correspondence theory of truth or veridicality, and its underlying epistemological assumptions. The underlying thesis is that, unduly influenced by the success of the natural sciences, and naive in accepting their claims to objectivity, many disciplines have sought to emulate them. There are two principle objections. Firstly, all other considerations aside, the supposedly objectivistic methodologies apparently applied to the explanation and prediction of the behavior of interactions of physical objects, may simply be inappropriate to certain other areas of inquiry; and more specifically objectivist methodologies are indeed …

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Optical 2d Positional Estimation For A Biomimetic Station-Keeping Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, Christopher Nunes Jan 2015

Optical 2d Positional Estimation For A Biomimetic Station-Keeping Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, Christopher Nunes

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Underwater vehicles often use acoustics or dead reckoning for global positioning, which is impractical for low cost, high proximity applications. An optical based positional feedback system for a wave tank operated biomimetic station-keeping vehicle was made using an extended Kalman filter and a model of a nearby light source. After physical light model verification, the filter estimated surge, sway, and heading with 6 irradiance sensors and a low cost inertial measurement unit (~$15). Physical testing with video feedback suggests an average error of ~2cm in surge and sway, and ~3deg in yaw, over a 1200 cm2 operational area. This is …

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Transportation Engineering Assimilated Livability Planning Using Micro-Simulation Models For Southeast Florida, Athur Dylan O’Berry Jan 2015

Transportation Engineering Assimilated Livability Planning Using Micro-Simulation Models For Southeast Florida, Athur Dylan O’Berry

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Transportation engineering has taken upon a new role; to empower the alternative modes of travel: walking, biking, and bus transit. In this new era, engineers are rethinking a network designed predominately for the automobile. The ultimate goal of this research is to create a process that can make a vehicle dominant corridor a desirable, livable thoroughfare by livability design and context sensitive performance measures. Balancing travel modes requires an account of vehicular traffic and the impact of reconfiguring existing conditions. The analysis herein is conducted by field data collection, transportation equations and microsimulation. Simulating traffic behavior will be the means …

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Understanding How National Board Certified Secondary Mathematics Teachers Integrate Academic And Social Knowledge Of Students Into Their Practice, Karen Cook Jan 2015

Understanding How National Board Certified Secondary Mathematics Teachers Integrate Academic And Social Knowledge Of Students Into Their Practice, Karen Cook

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

This qualitative case study investigated how six National Board Certified secondary mathematics teachers integrate knowledge of students into their practice to create socio- academic spaces for learning. Individual audiotaped interviews were utilized to generate data about what knowledge these teachers had of their students, how they gathered this knowledge, and how this knowledge of students influenced their decisions related to curriculum and instruction. The data were used to form an understanding of the nature and function of the socio- academic spaces that teachers create in planning for and delivering instruction. The study revealed that as teachers interact independently with the …

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Universal Physical Access Control System (Upacs), Clyde Carryl Jan 2015

Universal Physical Access Control System (Upacs), Clyde Carryl

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

This research addresses the need for increased interoperability between the varied access control systems in use today, and for a secure means of providing access to remote physical devices over untrusted networks. The Universal Physical Access Control System (UPACS) is an encryption-enabled security protocol that provides a standard customizable device control mechanism that can be used to control the behavior of a wide variety of physical devices, and provide users the ability to securely access those physical devices over untrusted networks.

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Underwater Acoustic Channel Estimation Using Multiple Sources And Receivers In Shallow Waters At Very-High Frequencies, Samar Kaddouri Jan 2015

Underwater Acoustic Channel Estimation Using Multiple Sources And Receivers In Shallow Waters At Very-High Frequencies, Samar Kaddouri

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

The underwater channel poses numerous challenges for acoustic communication. Acoustic waves suffer long propagation delay, multipath, fading, and potentially high spatial and temporal variability. In addition, there is no typical underwater acoustic channel; every body of water exhibits quantifiably different properties. Underwater acoustic modems are traditionally operated at low frequencies. However, the use of broadband, high frequency communication is a good alternative because of the lower background noise compared to low-frequencies, considerably larger bandwidth and better source transducer efficiency. One of the biggest problems in the underwater acoustic communications at high frequencies is time-selective fading, resulting in the Doppler spread. …

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The Effectiveness Of The National Board Certification As It Relates To The Advanced Placement Calculus Ab Exam, Fernando Oscar Antunez Jan 2015

The Effectiveness Of The National Board Certification As It Relates To The Advanced Placement Calculus Ab Exam, Fernando Oscar Antunez

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

This study compared data related to National Board Certification (NBC) of mathematics teachers in a South Florida school district. Data included 1,162 student scores on the 2014 AP Calculus AB exam, student gender, student grade level, and eligibility for free or reduced price lunch (FRL) status. Teachers completed the Standards' Beliefs Instrument (SBI) (Zollman & Mason, 1992) to determine alignment of their beliefs with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) standards. Interviews were conducted with five NBC mathematics teachers to understand how they incorporate best mathematics teaching practices in their daily instruction. A t-test analysis revealed that students …

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The Importance Of Immobilization And Localization Of Gynecological Applicators In High Dose Rate Brachytherapy Treatments, Mikko Hyvärinen Jan 2015

The Importance Of Immobilization And Localization Of Gynecological Applicators In High Dose Rate Brachytherapy Treatments, Mikko Hyvärinen

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Intracavitary high dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy is a form of radiation therapy generally in which a post-surgical tissue margin is treated. The dose gradient of HDR brachytherapy is very steep, and thus small displacements of the applicator, even as small as 1 mm, could potentially cause significant variations of dose which could result in undesired side effects such as overdose of a critical organ. In this retrospective dosimetric study, the variation of dose due to various small range motions of gynecological applicators is investigated. The results show that the implementation of additional immobilization and localization devices along with other safety …

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The Emotional Experience Of Language In English Spanish Bilinguals, Uribe Idaly Velez Jan 2015

The Emotional Experience Of Language In English Spanish Bilinguals, Uribe Idaly Velez

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Bilinguals commonly report experiencing emotions differently depending on which language are they speaking. Emotionally loaded words were expected to be appraised differently in first versus second language in a sample of Spanish-English bilinguals (n=117). English (L2) ratings were subtracted from Spanish (L1) ratings; the resulted scores were used as dependent variable in the analyses. Three categories of words (positive, negative and taboo) were appraised in both languages (English and Spanish)and two sensory modalities (Visual and auditory). The differences in valence scores in Spanish (L1) and English (L2) were expected to be significantly higher when presented aurally than when presented visually. …

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A Critical Analysis Of First Generation Black Male College Students’ Perceptions Of Their Preparation For College Level Mathematics, Kyla L. Williams Jan 2015

A Critical Analysis Of First Generation Black Male College Students’ Perceptions Of Their Preparation For College Level Mathematics, Kyla L. Williams

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

President Obama’s 2014 “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative responds to the continuing educational disparities that the No Child Left Behind Act was intended to have addressed. The preoccupation with standardized testing and accountability over the past decade has revealed evidence of disparities in achievement between Black male students and their White counterparts. Critical Race Theorists have framed these persistent disparities as evidence of the opportunity gap and have advocated culturally responsive pedagogy that would facilitate students’ academic success.

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A Dosimetric Study Of A Heterogeneous Phantom For Lung Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy Comparing Monte Carlo And Pencil Beam Calculations To Dose Distributions Measured With A 2-D Diode Array, Casey Michael Curley Jan 2015

A Dosimetric Study Of A Heterogeneous Phantom For Lung Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy Comparing Monte Carlo And Pencil Beam Calculations To Dose Distributions Measured With A 2-D Diode Array, Casey Michael Curley

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Monte Carlo (MC) and Pencil Beam (PB) calculations are compared to their measured planar dose distributions using a 2-D diode array for lung Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT). The planar dose distributions were studied for two different phantom types: an in-house heterogeneous phantom and a homogeneous phantom. The motivation is to mimic the human anatomy during a lung SBRT treatment and incorporate heterogeneities into the pre-treatment Quality Assurance process, where measured and calculated planar dose distributions are compared before the radiation treatment. Individual and combined field dosimetry has been performed for both fixed gantry angle (anterior to posterior) and planned …

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Cahydrodynamic Analysis Of Flapping Foils For The Propulsion Of Near Surface Under Water Vehicles Using The Panel Method, Julia Bustos Jan 2015

Cahydrodynamic Analysis Of Flapping Foils For The Propulsion Of Near Surface Under Water Vehicles Using The Panel Method, Julia Bustos

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

This thesis presents two-dimensional hydrodynamic analysis of flapping foils for the propulsion of underwater vehicles using a source-vortex panel. Using a simulation program developed in MatLab, the hydrodynamic forces (such as the lift and the drag) as well as the propulsion thrust and efficiency are computed with this method. The assumptions made in the analysis are that the flow around a hydrofoil is two-dimensional, incompressible and inviscid. The analysis is first considered for the case of a deeply submerged hydrofoil followed by the case where it is located in shallow water depth or near the free surface. In the second …

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